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w ome XXVI. 30; Luke x. 11; Eph.
25.
x Rom. ix. 31; 2 Cor. x. 14; 2 Sam. xx. 13; Cant. ii. 12 al. a Chap. ii. 4; Rom. xvi. 17; 2 Cor. iv. 18; Gal. vi. 1.
z Only here in N.T.
αὐτῷ ” στοιχεῖν κανόνι, τὸ αὐτὸ φρονεῖν.
17. "Συμμιμηταί” μου γίνεσθε, ἀδελφοί, καὶ "σκοπεῖτε τοὺς οὕτω»
_ τοῦτο ὁ Θεὸς ὑμῖν ἀποκαλύψει: 16. " πλὴν εἰς ὃ * ἐφθάσαμεν,ὶ τῷ
1
Gal. v. 25, vi. 16. Cf. Rom. iv. 12.
1 So ΜΕΚΙ.Ρ, syrr. ethpp-, Chr., Dam., Thdrt. Edd. tw αντω στοιχεῖν (without
the words added) with ΑΒ, 17, 67**, cop. sah. xthro., Hil, Aug.
το αντο
Φρονειν, τω αντω στοιχειν, DEFG, 23, 31, 37, O.L. vg., Euth.ocd., Victorin., Ambrst. 2So Trg., Alf. with AB7DcEKLP. Ti., Ws., W.H. συνμ with ΝΒΡ"Εα.
3 So Ti., W.H. with
ABD*FG. Trg., Alf., Ws. οντως with DcEKsil.Lsil.P, εἰς,
See Ws., TK., p. 64, who thinks that ovrw is connected with a similar reading at
Iv. I.
this subject. But his hint of rebuke is very delicately put. εἴ τι κ.τ.λ. It is far-fetched to take this (as Hpt. does) of their judgment on the Judaisers. Paul has forgotten, for the time, the special anxiety which weighs upon him, and has become absorbed in the glorious vista which unfolds itself to the Christian. καὶ τοῦτο κ.τ.λ. A firm conviction of the Apostle’s. See esp. 1 Cor. ii. 10 (and cf. Von Soden, Abhandlungen C. ο. Weizs. gewidmet, p. 166).
Ver. 16. πλήν. It is quite common as introducing a parenthesis. ‘Only one thing! So far as we have come, kee the path” (Weizs.). For the word οὕ. Schmid, Alfticismus, i., p. 133, and Bonitz’s Index to Aristotle.—els ὃ ἐφθάσ. In later Greek es in modern) φθάνω has lost all idea of anticipation and simply means “come,” “reach"s Cf, 2 Cor. x. 14 (and see Hatz., Einl., p. 199; Sources of N.T. Greek, p. 156). “So far as we have come.” In what? Ws. thinks in right φρονεῖν, connecting the words immediately with τοῦτο φρονῶμεν. ΚΙ. supposes the νόμος δικαιοσύνης, referring to the earlier part of the chap. (esp. ver. 9). Does he not rather mean the point reached on the advance towards the goal (the κατὰ σκοπὸν διώκειν), which is the subject directly before his mind? The very use of στοιχεῖν seems to justify this interpretation.—_r@ αὐτῷ. It is, at first sight, natural to refer τ. αὖτ. im- mediately to 8 preceding. And this may be right. But there is much force in the interpretation of Lips., who renders “let us walk on the same path” (so also Hist.). The exhortation would then be directed against the difference of opinion and feeling which were certainly present in the Church at Philippi, and is sug- gested to Paul by the ἑτέρως φρον. of ver. 15. That this was an early inter-
Both he attributes to the arbitrariness of the copyist.
pretation is shown by the v./. of TR. The words κανονι τὸ αὐτὸ Φρονειν sant found in the best MSS.) are evidently a gloss on the text. ‘Only, so far as we have come, let us keep to the same path.” τῷ αὐτῷ is an instance of a dative common after verbs of “ going 4 and “walking” in N.T. Cf. Buttm., Gram., p. 184.--στοιχεῖν. impera- tival infinitive found in Hom., Aristoph., Inscrr. (see Meisterhans, Gram. d. att. Inschrr., § 88 A; Viteau, Le Verbe, 147). Probably this usage is close connected with the origin of the infini- tive, which was a dative, as is shown, e.g., by the infinitive in English, ¢.g., “to work". This might easily become an imperative, “to work"! Analogous is the use of χαίρειν and ὑγιαίνειν in Letters. στ. is only found in late writers, although, from the frequency of στοῖχος, we may infer that it must have existed in earliertimes. Literally it means ‘ march in file’. Moule well observes that στ. more than περιπατεῖν (the common word) suggests the step, the detail.